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Canadian astronaut in orbit tweets a photo of Boston from space

Boston from space. Photo by Chris Hadfield.
Boston from space. Photo by Chris Hadfield.

A Canadian astronaut who currently calls Earth’s orbit home offered the world a glimpse of Boston from space.

Chris Hadfield, who lives aboard ISS as Flight Engineer on Expedition 34, which is orbiting the earth, tweeted a picture of the city at 2:32 p.m. Saturday with the caption, “Boston on a misty February night.”

Hadfield is known for tweeting out photos of cities and landmarks, and also runs a website with videotaped experiments in space. Today he tweeted a picture of Croatia, and yesterday he put out a photograph of the Andes.


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